Distinguished
Accredited Estate Planners®
  
Award received November 2006
Thomas F. Commito, J.D., LL.M., CLU, ChFC
Lincoln Financial Distributors

Thomas F. Commito has 28 years experience in advanced sales, life insurance products and life insurance marketing and is a Senior Tax Advisor in Lincoln Financial Distributors' advanced sales channel. He has managed traditional product line at National Life of Vermont.

Mr. Commito is a graduate of Cornell University (BA), Boston College Law School (J.D., cum laude) and Boston University Law School (LL.M. – Taxation). He has his NASD Series 7 and is Series 24 licensed and is currently admitted to practice law in Vermont and Massachusetts.

Since 2001 (including 2006), Mr. Commito has written annually the "Life Insurance Section" for NYU Review of Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation published by Lexis / Nexis – Matthew Bender. He has authored two books including: Working with FLPs and LLCs: A Practitioners Guide, (2nd Edition) and Comprehensive Buy-Sell Agreements, both published by the National Underwriter Company. Articles include over 100 publications in journals such as: Journal of American Society of Financial Society Professionals; Life Insurance Selling; Brokers World; Senior Golfer; Climber; Estate Planners Quarterly; Trusts & Estates; Estate Planning; and Anthology: 100 Years of Alpinism in the United States. Mr. Commito has written a column – Accounting and Taxation in Journal of Financial Service Professionals, served as an assistant editor for the American Alpine Journal (premier journal of mountaineering in the world), and served as an associate editor for the Journal of Financial Service Professionals.

He has been a speaker at the following: Platform Speaker at the 2006 International Forum, three MDRTs, five Forums of Society of FSP, two International Meetings of CFP, Top of the Table, 2002 International Forum, three ALLU Meetings, 20 LIMRA Advanced Sale Forums (with Steve Leimberg), and two National Estate Planning Council Meetings.

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